Bill de Blasio on Blizzard Bust: ‘Better Safe Than Sorry’

NY Observer ^ | 1-27-2014 | Jillian Jorgensen

[KeyLargo]

Bill de Blasio on Blizzard Bust: ‘Better Safe Than Sorry’

By Jillian Jorgensen | 01/27/15 8:29am

After a much-hyped blizzard-that-wasn’t, Mayor Bill de Blasio said this morning that he was glad the city had prepared for a worse storm and that New York would be getting back to normal quickly.

“We thought we were going to get something much bigger,” Mr. de Blasio told CNN “New Day” anchor Chris Cuomo (who happens to be the brother of Gov. Andrew Cuomo).

Forecasts of two or even three feet of snow led Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo to essentially shut the city down. Mr. de Blasio rolled out a driving ban, lifted at 7:30 a.m., closed city schools and shut the Staten Island Ferry. Mr. Cuomo stopped all MTA service—an unprecedented move for a snow storm—and also banned travel on state roads.

[I want the USA back]

Every year it’s the same thing. The media obsess over the weather, and cause everybody to shut everything down.

Humans have put men on the moon and rockets on Mars. They operate on brains and replace hearts. But they have created a transportation system that becomes an utter failure when there is more than 1 inch of snow.

[mountn man]

On our subways in Chicago, the snow falls of the tracks and ties and lands on the streets below.

[jughandle]

Something tells me they wished so badly for this to be the man-made global warming/climate change event of the century.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Right. I may not be remembering correctly, but when I was a kid back in the 60s and 70s, governors didn’t issue travel bans for entire sections of a state or an entire city or marshal law type curfews at the drop of a hat. That seems to be happening more and more as a result of hysterical media predictions relating to weather events.

[Starboard]

Their lies always seem to benefit them one way or another. Its almost as if it were intentional. ;)

[Rumplemeyer]

I too think he is a clueless communist putz, but erred on the side of caution and actually did his job.

We done Mr. Mayor.

[Starboard]

Just conditioning the sheeple to accept expanded government authority. Get them used to the idea of being corralled and controlled. The slippery slope of acceptance.

[Ditter]

Here on the Gulf Coast we get the same kind of histerical warnings. The only people who should evacuate from a hurricane are those close to the coast that will be affected by the storm surge. Instead people who are safe in their homes and should stay put, get out on the roads and the traffic is so bad that no one can go any where. I know people who sat in their cars, stuck in traffic for 9 hours or more. They finally turned around and were back home in 30 minutes.

[Impy]

LOL LOL LOL LOL

[KeyLargo]

"Just conditioning the sheeple to accept expanded government authority. Get them used to the idea of being corralled and controlled. The slippery slope of acceptance."

[NFHale]

Hope they all got “the bread and milk...”

[cripplecreek]

Most I’ve seen here in Michigan are impassable sections of highways closed by county trucks parked across onramps. Usually overnight on north south highways near lake Michigan.

[Voltage]

The problem was a failed forecast. The WX Bureau should have employed Al Gore...he is able to forecast the weather up to 50 years in advance! 12 hours would have been easy for him.

[Irishguy]

{in best liberal guffaw} climate is not weather...

except when it suits a liberal of course...

so monday weather was proof climate was changing BUT today climate is not weather...

free cookie to anyone who spots the next argument: the size of the blizzard is proof that that climate change is happening...

ITS MELLLTTTING!!!!!

[KeyLargo]

So people are supposed to believe anything said by a man that murdered the groundhog.

[Starboard]

Those in power want to stay in power, and they want more of it. That is a truism. Our Founding Fathers understood this very well and tried to protect us. It seems in vain.

[SamAdams76]

Politics aside, if I was the mayor, I'd try to keep people out of the streets too, so that the snow removal people can do their job and bring the city back to normal much quicker.

This is the 21st century people. Most people can work from their homes via VPN connection to their corporate networks. Conference calls can still be done. Webinars. Online training can be done. Emails can be exchanged, reports can still be written...in fact, considering my current job, I can't think of a single task I can't do from home except actually meeting somebody face to face.

Why millions of people in NYC (any city for that matter) have to clamber into their automobiles and risk life and limb on the highways to get to an office on a snowy day (even if it's only a few inches) is beyond me. Just keep those people home. Get the roads cleared and bring them back to the office the next day.

All my employees are off the road today but I have assigned them training courses to take while they sit at home. Now when they come back to work tomorrow, they'll be refreshed and their training will be mostly up to date.

Contrast to that to if I made them drive to the office this morning. It would take some of them four hours to get to the office, after which they'd be exhausted and would be bitching to their co-workers the rest of the day about it. They would basically be useless to me productivity wise. Then a bunch of them would call in sick the next day.

On top of that, some of them would probably be involved in automobile accidents, resulting in yet more missed time.

Unless you have a job where you need to be at a certain place (i.e. you work in a hospital or you are a police officer, etc.) then STAY OFF THE ROADS when it is snowing.

[KeyLargo]

Thanks a lot Mr. Mayor......

“if I was the mayor, I’d try to keep people out of the streets too,”

[9YearLurker]

The subways run through lots of colder weather.

[editor-surveyor]

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Prepare your wrists for cuffs, and your cheeks for the gauntlet!

Better interned than free!

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